cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/3731915

Over the past 2 decades I’ve been trying various medications to help me w/ my long running major depression & crippling ADHD. And none have seemed to work.

Recently, the doctor I’m working w/ nowadays suggested that she’s practically running out of options to offer me & that I should take a pharmacogenetics test to help her figure out what should she prescribe.

I took the (expensive) test and the results were eye-opening! The results came out a couple of weeks later w/ a detailed list of some few hundreds medications of various sorts (from pain killers to blood pressure control) along w/ their efficacy for my case. The physician’s version also included a list of suggestions and alternatives for each medicine.

In my particular case, it essentially indicated that any medication that I had tried before was supposed to be either useless or to have limited impact on my body. That part is true.

Please note that I’ve only started a new set of prescriptions since a couple of weeks ago and as such can’t really vouch for the accuracy of the suggestions.

I struggled a lot w/ myself to post something this personal. But I thought maybe there are people out there who’ve got no idea such tests exist and it might turn out to be helpful to some.

  •  NightAuthor   ( @NightAuthor@beehaw.org ) English
    2•1 year ago

    So what drugs had you tried, and what are you taking now?

    Also, how expensive was the test?

    For me, adderall helps, but I don’t know how much I should expect from a drug and how much I just have to get better habits. Plus, adderall is short acting, and I’d like to use one of the round-the-clock options if they’d work for me. Obviously, it’s preferable to not spend a long time figuring out which other options might also work for me.